Chucky Returns For More CHILD'S PLAY!!

It was only a matter of time before new life was breathed back into the CHILD'S PLAY franchise. After the series took a more comedic turn with BRIDE OF CHUCKY and SEED OF CHUCKY, Universal is taking the popular killer doll direct to home entertainment for CURSE OF CHUCKY, which is heading into production sometime this fall.

According to Moviehole, Don Mancini, writer of all five CHILD'S PLAY films to this point and creator of the series, is returning to pen the script for this newest installment and also get back into the director's chair where he sat for SEED OF CHUCKY. Brad Dourif is also back to reprise the familiar voice of the Good Guy gone bad.

What type of story are we looking at this time out?

Chucky arrives to wreck havoc within a family that’s regrouped for a funeral. In the wake of her mother’s passing, a young woman – in a wheelchair since birth – is forced to put up with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, the fearless Nica discovers the culprit might be a “strange doll” she was sent a couple of days earlier.

The concentration is supposed to be much more horror than comedy this time around... it's just a shame that it might be wasting away on the DVD shelves upon arrival.

its sad he's gone the DTV route but least mancini and more importantly dourif are involved. i just hope the lower budget of DTV doesn't mean we get a terrible animatronic puppet. his facial movements just got better with each movie, it be a shame to see it take a major step back like the Cryptkeeper did in the 3rd Tales movie.

They sank the IP into the ground with the last films. Not only were they abysmal and polarizing but they were completely different than how the early films were.
Also, is it just me or does the plot outline seem like they're just borrowing from Monkey Shines and replacing the monkey with the doll instead?

I wonder why they are not going with that storyline, where he goes after Tiffany and Glen. Perhaps they will lead up to it.
What seems unclear is if this is the remake they've been talking about or if its a sequel. It seems a bit odd to go in this direction. Maybe the wheelchair bound girl becomes his go to for getting around? I don't know.
I'm extremely disappointed they are going the direct to video route. That's bullshit. The series is amazing. So much possibility. How the fuck do they just determine that its going to video before they make it? Does that mean they intend on it sucking?

...people don't appreciate how great his puppets were unless you tell them he didn't do the ones for Seed of Chucky (which looked like mass marketed dolls) and was hands off for Child's Play 3 after the nightmare of production that was part 2. The dolls in 2 and 3 were of a much higher quality than part one, with lip syncing vastly improved (particularly in part 3 where it was computer controlled, as in Bride), but they lost the "turning human" appearance from part one.
Then, all of a sudden, in Bride, Chucky no longer had freckles and he had more realistic eyes. Oy vey. Still better than Seed though!

Brad Dourif is even funnier in these films when he's not playing the doll. I'm thrilled that he's returning and that this ain't a reboot, but I hope they return to the dark (and unintentionally funny) tone of the first film.
The less said about seed of chucky, the better.

Obviously THIS is what the "reboot" was supposed to be. What in the world would the point of this project be otherwise -- let's do a shitty direct to video sequel to stoke everyone up for that big screen remake?
Clearly whatever MGM had in mind, they've let Universal do whatever they want...and it doesn't inspire confidence.

Don't give the fucking doll a voice. A voiceless murder doll would actually be scary. Don't pussy out and make it pg-13. Make it violent and gritty and it would be a reboot i think people would support.

If that moviehole article is true, then they are ignoring 4 and 5.
Why????
And its going Direct to DVD.
WHY????
What the fuck is wrong with these people. You don't stick the Chuck in the corner of a fucking rental store without letting him fuck with a theatrical audience first. Fuck you.
Why would you ignore a great series you have created to fuck it up with this? I would hope that it takes place right after Seed Of Chucky, but in the interim between Glen's patricide of Chucky and Chucky's arm in a box sent to Glen. Chucky would pull himself back together somehow minus an arm. He would use this wheelchair bitch to help him out because maybe Chucky would be handicapped now as well. He would bond with her and have her send the arm to his kid.
"If you don't post my arm to my kid in 7 days, your family will die. One family member for each day that goes by. You fucking find my kid or I'll roll your ass to hell!! Got it, Hot Wheels?"
Seriously, fucking direct to dvd? Fuck you.
I hope this news is a fake, because it sounds like it. How the fuck do they get this much info without a source?
Fuck you.

not going for laughs, but going back to the horror of the first one. Child's Play 2 was okay, but I zoned out of the sequels when they started going more for goofiness than horror. This looks like it could bring Chuck back on track.

scratchmonkey is correct it wasnt banned, the media tried connecting CP3 to a really nasty murder of a toddler, however there was no evidence to support that the murderers had even seen it. I think it may have been banned during the investigation until it was proved there was no connection.
There was another horrible murder of a young girl, who was also tortured, the people who did this blasted music which had lines from the series, again it was proved that they had never seen them and if I remember correctly the mother of the victim also defended the films saying that the people who killed her daughter were just sick and evil and that the films in no way contributed to her daughters death.

Why do films feel the need to be right around that mark?
Give me a Child's Play film that strokes the 2 hour mark. The problem with all the films in the series is that they are around 90 minutes long and feel rushed.

Watching 1,2, and 3 edited on those cable networks like USA back in the day, it seemed so much longer with those commercials. It also had added scenes for television.
Then I watch them unedited, commercial free on Cinemax and its over in no time and I'm thinking, "What the fucking shit, its so fucking short, its shorter than Chucky himself. They don't hold up as well as they did when it seemed longer."
Child's Play : 87 minutes
Child's Play 2: 84 minutes
Child's Play 3: 90 minutes
Bride Of Chucky: 89 minutes
Seed Of Chucky: 87 minutes
And this is with credits factored in. So subtract about 5 minutes and maybe even an additional minute for opening credits for actual material time.
It's fucking bullshit. Make a fucking 2 hour movie and stop with the cookie-cutter bullshit that's supposed to fit in a little time slot for television.
Studio Fuckface: "It must be about 90 minutes long so we can add commercials to make it an even 2 hour timeslot. Where's my cross? I want to have my daily prayer for Jesus."